UN/COUNTERTERRORISM: 1267, CTC, AND 1540 COMMITTEE

UNCLAS USUN NEW YORK 001882 SIPDIS SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: UNSC ETTC PREL PGOV KTFN PTER SUBJECT: UN/COUNTERTERRORISM: 1267, CTC, AND 1540 COMMITTEE CHAIRS BRIEF SECURITY COUNCIL IN PUBLIC SESSION ¶1. The Chairs of the UN Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC),1267 or Al-Qaida/Taliban Sanctions Committee, and 1540 Committee on nonproliferation briefed the Council in a public meeting on September 28, 2006. The three Chairs described their committees' accomplishments over the past 120 days and outlined their future plans. This was the sixth such public meeting. Following the briefings, all Council members, Venezuela, Switzerland, Finland, and Cuba spoke. Common themes included: listing and de-listing, combating incitement through the implementation of resolution 1624, and the importance of outreach and regional meetings to promote the implementation of resolution 1540. As in previous open meetings, Venezuela and Cuba both accused the United States of failing to comply with its obligations under counterterrorism resolutions by providing safe haven to "terrorists." A verbatim transcript of the meeting has been sent to IO/PSC and can be found at www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/scact2006.htm. The UN's Department of Public Information has also issued a summary of the meeting, which can be found at www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2006/SC8840.doc.ht m. BOLTON